Word: travel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Candidates must satisfy the committee that they are physically fitted to profit from a period of residence in a foreign climate, that they have achieved distinction in some recognized branch of learning, and that they are willing to devote their whole time to study travel, and social intercourse with fellow students...
...which causes the disease. He found it in the mucous membranes of the nose and throat, and suspected that it might exist along the olfactory nerve. Not until last year did Dr. Maurice Brodie of Manhattan and Dr. Arthur Roland Elvidge of McGill University discover that the virus did travel up the olfactory nerve to the brain, then to the spine...
Bargains are also available in private cars, of which Pullman has 16 in commission, five laid up. It still costs $75 per day with a minimum of $200 to indulge in that most luxurious form of land travel. But it used to be necessary to pay the full rent for the time the empty car spent on the return trip. Now the return charge is only one-half. The railroad charge has also been cut from 25 full fares...
...into the deeper East to write that he loved its "vivid colors and majestic smells." He still does, despite what the East did to him. In the Malay States malaria deafened one ear and nearly killed him. He came home to write a book about tiger hunting, Sport and Travel in the Far East, passionately resolved not to go into Boston banking. For a scion of the aloof Grews the only way to live in the places with magic names was to enter the Foreign Service. "When I flunked my first examination," Joe Grew has said, "I nearly committed suicide...
Because short waves travel in optical lines, that is, in lines similar to beams of light, it was thought, up to a few months ago, that such waves could not go more than fifty miles, due to ground interference. Very rarely do short waves reflect from the Heaviside Layer. When it was recently found that the station in West Hartford, more than eighty miles away from Boston and across a mountain range, could get signals through, all previous theories concerning short waves were upset. The new station here has been established to carry out further experiments into the nature...